Tina Dupuy: Let's look back at the kitchen debate

6:12 PM,
Sep. 28, 2012

Tina Dupuy

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In the summer of 1959, then-Vice President Richard Nixon flew to Moscow to speak at the opening of the American National Exhibition, an exhibit intended to showcase the advantages of American capitalism.

Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the life-sized model of the "typical American home." It was a ranch style, three-bedroom house made by All-State Properties of suburban Long Island. "I want to show you this kitchen," said Nixon to his boisterous host. "It is like those of our houses in California."